Vulnerable Witnesses within Family and Criminal Proceedings
Bloomsbury Professional (Verlag)
978-1-5265-0723-5 (ISBN)
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Are you prepared to protect the vulnerable in court? This book guides you through the rights of witnesses and the duties of advocates in family and criminal proceedings.
Explaining the legal structure currently in place to assist vulnerable individuals, this title covers every stage of proceedings, including the investigation/pre-proceeding, and post-proceedings, whilst also looking at anonymity and protective orders. In addition, it discusses the sanctions available to the court if proper consideration and sufficient protection has not been given to vulnerable people at each stage.
Covering legislation, regulation and authorities which govern these situations, it offers best practice regarding the examination of those who have difficulty understanding their case, by reason of age, circumstance or emotional and psychological difficulties.
Practical help is provided through:
Step-by-step guidance at each stage
Helpful suggestions as to how to approach the hearing at each stage of proceedings
Links to the useful guidance regularly referred to within proceedings including the Advocates Gateway
This title is included in Bloomsbury Professional's Family Law online service.
Frank Feehan KC is a family law barrister at 1 King's Bench Walk and a Recorder in the Crown Court and County Court. Much of his work is in complex medical and sexual abuse cases involving children and learning-disabled adults. He also has a substantial appellate practice concentrating in “human rights” related elements of such cases. He has appeared in most of the major Supreme Court cases in family law in the last 5 years. Caroline Harris is a barrister at 1 King's Bench Walk and practices in family law and criminal law. Family Law Children: Advising and acting in both private and public law proceedings. Criminal Law: She acts for both the prosecution and the defence at all levels and has experience up to and including the Court of Appeal.
1 Summary of the purpose of the handbook
2 General principles as to the examination of witnesses
3 Vulnerable people: pre-proceedings/investigation stage
4 Vulnerable people in the initial stages of proceedings
5 Joint hearings – family and crime
6 Fitness to plead and specific defences arising from being a vulnerable defendant
7 Young defendants and the youth court
8 Intermediaries and ground rules hearings
9 Additional pre-giving evidence considerations for vulnerable witnesses
10 The official solicitor
11 Competence of witnesses in a criminal trial
12 Vulnerable witnesses during a criminal trial
13 Vulnerable defendants during the criminal trial process
14 Jury directions and the judge’s summing up
15 Family law
| Erscheinungsdatum | 28.01.2019 |
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| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Gewicht | 397 g |
| Themenwelt | Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht |
| Recht / Steuern ► Privatrecht / Bürgerliches Recht ► Familienrecht | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-5265-0723-4 / 1526507234 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-5265-0723-5 / 9781526507235 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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